Democrat Haley Stevens Endorsed a Republican in Michigan. Now Party Members Want To Kick Her Out.
Some House Democrats want to see Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Michigan) ousted from their caucus after she endorsed Republican Mike Rogers in the Michigan Senate race on Sunday.
Stevens ran for the Democratic nomination and narrowly lost to Abdul El-Sayed. Although Stevens initially endorsed El-Sayed following her defeat, she did not campaign with him. The two candidates have been at odds particularly over Israel.
On Sunday, Stevens posted a video on X, fully endorsing Rogers.
“I don’t belong in Abdul’s campaign,” she said, later adding that she was still a “proud Democrat.”
I am endorsing Mike Rogers for the United States Senate today. https://t.co/pQgfSBuhOJ
— Haley Stevens (@HaleyforMI) November 1, 2026
The political meltdown has earned the ire of Stevens’ peers, some of whom want to remove her from the Democratic caucus.
“I hope she doesn’t return to work on Tuesday,” Rep. Lateefah Simon (D-Calif.) told Axios.
Rep. Emily Randall (D-Wash.) and Rep. Marc Veasey (D-Texas) also told the outlet that they would support removing Stevens from the caucus.
Axios said that one senior Democrat told the outlet that Stevens had been removed from several House Democratic text threads. “Endorsing a Republican in a tipping point state is ridiculous, especially from a Democrat … She should be removed from our caucus altogether,” a House Democrat told the website.
Stevens also has faced fallout from her own team. Her chief of staff, Justin German announced his resignation and said that several other members of her team had also quit.
“This election is too important to sow division or stand on the sidelines,” German wrote. “We are shocked and heartbroken by Congresswoman Stevens’ decision to support Mike Rogers.”
Stevens was supposed to appear with El-Sayed and South Carolina Rep. Jim Clyburn at a church service on Sunday. However, Stevens was disinvited after she posted a statement on social media in which she took issue with an ad linking affordability issues with the Iran war. An independent PAC had run the ad, and El-Sayed had denounced it, but Stevens continued to criticize the campaign in her statement.
She said that El-Sayed had also implied that “Israel is the reason Michigan cannot afford schools, health care and childcare,” and that she expected El-Sayed to apologize. “Abdul promises to get money out of politics. He can begin by getting Israel out of his explanation for everything Michigan cannot afford.”
After that statement, El-Sayed’s campaign told Stevens that she should not come to the church on Sunday.
